AuthorTopic: VectorLinux 5.8 SOHO RC3 released (Read 21944 times)

The VectorLinux development team proudly announces the release of VectorLinux 5.8 SOHO RC3, built on the rock solid base of VL 5.8 standard GOLD. This release addresses all the bugs and suggestions since the RC2 release. We spent a good deal of energy perfecting the binary NVIDIA and ATI drivers installation routine plus updated to latest drivers. We felt it was time to give our users the best out of the box experience and in todays world video performance is a must. Vleasytables our unique firewall that we think users will find easy to use and configure was tweaked. The kernel is updated to 2.6.20.7, Firefox and OpenOffice updated to their latest and some serious updates to Vasm to reflect new configuration programs Several wifi drivers were updated including ndiswrapper and madwifi.

The latest SOHO includes a custom 2.6.20.7 SMP Kernel, compiled with bootsplash, squashfs, lzma, and realtime patches. It supports reading and writing to NTFS-formatted media via fuse and ntfs-3g. The desktop environment is KDE version 3.5.6 with Kmyfirewall, Amarok 1.4.5, and OpenOffice version 2.2. Multimedia applications such as VLC 0.8.6a, Mplayer 1.0RC1, K3B-1.0.1 and graphics editors such as The Gimp version 2.2.14 and Xara Xtreme version 0.7. Printing is supported by cups with hpijs drivers for HP printers, and gutenprint drivers for many other popular printers. There is a whole new look and feel, from the boot menu to the desktop. We call it beautiful. We know its fast!SCREENSHOT DESKTOP

This is my first post here!First at all I would like to say Hello Everyone!

I've already installed VL 5.8 RC3 on my mate Celeron laptop and VL is working very fast and and fast.I used to be Xubuntu user since 6 months but some features started annoying me,specially response time and overall speed of this OS.Tonight I'm gonna install VL 5.8 RC3 on my Athlon 700 MHz with 128MB ram.

I'm looking forward to install VL in my brain!

Great job boys!

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256MB would be a bare minimum. When I first boot KDE on VL5.8SOHO RC3 the command "free" shows me that just to get to a bare desktop takes about 245MB of RAM (much of that is cached however, and you end up with about 80MB actually being used). However, it still means that once you load a browser and maybe another program you will undoubtedly start using swap, and then it's sort of like driving into a wall of jello.

I would not use KDE without 512MB or RAM, if I had less than that I would opt for VL5.8 standard using xfce, but that is just my opinion.

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Guys, when the final version come out will I have to uninstall the RC3 or can I just update it?

ps: I have not downloaded the RC3 one because I'll wait replies to take a decision

Thank you very much indeed.

No one knows anything about it?

I think a full-install of the final version is needed. You could try to upgrade some packages but a full install is recommended. I dont know if a delta will be avaible (you patch the RC3 iso with it, and you get the final ISO, the install is still needed, but you save some broadband). If you are worried about your personal data, you can keep your /home partition if you make one. May be I´m wrong, please someone correct me if I am.

cheers, Rodrigo

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256MB would be a bare minimum. When I first boot KDE on VL5.8SOHO RC3 the command "free" shows me that just to get to a bare desktop takes about 245MB of RAM (much of that is cached however, and you end up with about 80MB actually being used). However, it still means that once you load a browser and maybe another program you will undoubtedly start using swap, and then it's sort of like driving into a wall of jello.

I would not use KDE without 512MB or RAM, if I had less than that I would opt for VL5.8 standard using xfce, but that is just my opinion.

Thanks, as you probably guessed I do only have 256 MB of RAM. I may still try it though I'm reasonably happy with VL 5.8 Standard and fluxbox (normally, though I use others sometimes).

256MB would be a bare minimum. I would not use KDE without 512MB or RAM, if I had less than that I would opt for VL5.8 standard using xfce, but that is just my opinion.

Well that's probably right specially for powerful applications.I got Athlon 700MHz with 128MB ram,Riva TNT2 Pro (working using nv open source drivers) and KDE is running very fast.I've installed 1GB swap partition and everything seems to be fine.I tried yesterday run gaim,opera and xine playing divX in the same time and VL was working propely with good reaction and response times.

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i also have 256 mb ram available..and imho its by far enough..the trick is to provide certain memory to openoffice.you cant believe it afterwards...the box is just flying..and so responsive.without any glitches

go to openoffice>settings> memory>put it to 64 mb...the same to memory per object>8 mb would be sufficientanother option would be to deactivate java in openoffice...(never used it in ooffice)

i dont know the ramifications exactly to the other applications(in technical terms)...but the other apps are too much more responsive...maybe someone can explain it, why this tweak affect all interactiones with applicationes.

btw: i have been working with this configuration for at least 8 month without any sideeffects..